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WWE Smackdown 6/27/25 Review | CM Punk APOLOGIZES To Saudi Fans, Dresses Up As John Cena?!

Solomonster Sounds Off

The Solomonster

Tv & Film, Wrestling, Sports, Tv Reviews

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Solomonster reviews the final WWE Smackdown before Night of Champions with a feed outage causing a 30-minute blackout, CM Punk apologizing to the Saudi fans earlier in the day and then cosplaying as the Doctor of Thuganomics in a segment where he RAPPED on John Cena (yes, really), plus Last Woman Standing with Tiffany Stratton and Nia Jax, and GIULIA wins gold!

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0:00.0

On the eve of Night of Champions,

0:03.8

WWE was in Riyadh for Smackdown.

0:07.1

As you could tell, it is not even 5 o'clock in the afternoon here in the East Coast.

0:12.6

And what I did was what many people did,

0:14.8

which was used my trusty VPN to watch the show,

0:18.1

which was airing at 1 o'clock in the afternoon on Netflix in other

0:23.4

places like Canada, which is where I became an honorary citizen of today when I connected

0:28.2

to a Canadian server.

0:29.8

And that is where I watched SmackDown.

0:32.6

And I was very hopeful when they opened the show with Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton.

0:36.7

I've been waiting for this

0:37.7

match for a long time. And this was announced on very short notice because Cody only qualified

0:43.2

for the finals of the King of the Ring on Monday. So technically this match isn't even, I mean,

0:48.7

hasn't even been on the books for a week. And we're finally getting our first Cody Rhodes-Randy

0:53.4

Orton match. So I was looking

0:55.0

forward to seeing a face-to-face between the two of them here on this show. That's how we were

0:59.3

going to kick things off. And it didn't quite go as planned. Because after Cody Rhodes comes

1:05.3

out and Randy Orton comes out, Randy is about to speak. All of a sudden, the feed cuts out. And I'm watching a screen

1:14.1

that says, we'll be right back. Yeah, I think of those old television sitcoms from the 1980s when

1:20.1

they would go to commercial and you'd have that one screen, we'll be back after these messages.

1:25.7

Only they never came back. Or at least they did eventually come back,

1:29.9

but not for over half an hour. And I did not get to see Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton have their

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